Treaties and Conventions Relating to Tibet
Anglo-Tibetan Declaration (1914) [399]
ANGLO-TIBETAN DECLARATION
3 JULY, 1914
We, the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain and Thibet, hereby record the following declaration to the effect that we acknowledge the annexed 322 Appendixes convention as initialled to be binding on the Governments of Great Britain and Thibet, and we agree that so long as the Government of China withholds signature to the aforesaid convention she will be debarred from the enjoyment of all privileges accruing therefrom.
In token whereof we have signed and sealed this declaration, two copies in English and two in Thibetan.
Done at Simla this 3rd day of July, A.D. 1914, corresponding with the Thibetan date the 10th day of the 5th month of the Wood-Tiger year.
A. Henry McMahon,
British Plenipotentiary
(Seal of the British Plenipotentiary)
(Seal of the Dalai Lama)
(Signature of the Lonchen Shatra)
(Seal of the Lonchen Shatra)
(Seal of the Drepung Monastery)
(Seal of the Sera Monastery)
(Seal of the Gaden Monastery)
(Seal of the National Assembly)
Notes
1. Source: Crown-copyright document, FO�535/17, No.�231, Inclosure�7. Crown- copyright documents in the India Office Records and the Public Record Office reproduced and/or transcribed in this publication appear by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Reproduced from M. C. van Walt van Praag's Status of Tibet: History, Rights and Prospects in International Law. With permission of the author.